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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 1630 1 of 1 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5441 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2025 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 1630 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY | |
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| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | REP. ELLIOTT, 88th Dist. | |
| 15 | 15 | REP. HUGHES, 135th Dist. | |
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| 20 | 20 | AN ACT CONCERNING SENTENCE MODIFICATION ELIGIBILITY. | |
| 21 | 21 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 22 | 22 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 24 | 24 | That section 53a-39 of the general statutes be amended to establish a 1 | |
| 25 | 25 | "second look" process to identify cases where bias, extreme sentencing 2 | |
| 26 | 26 | and mitigating circumstances may justify early release to eligible 3 | |
| 27 | 27 | persons, including incarcerated elderly, persons with developmental 4 | |
| 28 | 28 | disabilities and rehabilitated incarcerated persons who could be safely 5 | |
| 29 | 29 | decarcerated with sentence modification. 6 | |
| 30 | 30 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 31 | 31 | To establish a "second look" process for sentencing modification for | |
| 32 | 32 | eligible persons who are incarcerated by expanding the role of courts in | |
| 33 | 33 | sentence reduction and shifting responsibility away from the Board of | |
| 34 | 34 | Pardons and Paroles. |